Conforming Hybrid Mesh Generation for Solids with Tubular Holes

ABSTRACT

A new conforming hybrid mesh generation method is proposed and applied to generate mesh for three-dimensional solids with open-ended tubular holes. A pyramidal element generation method is presented to solve the non-conforming problem. The procedure consists of five steps. At first, surfaces of tubular holes are recognized and discretized. Secondly, the regions around the tubular holes are presented by hexahedral elements. Then, the surface triangular mesh is generated. After that, the pyramid elements are constructed. Finally, the tetrahedral mesh is generated to tessellate the rest of the domain. By the proposed method, high-quality hybrid mesh can be automatically created. And the number of the obtained elements is far less than the all-tetrahedral mesh. Several examples are presented to demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of our method.

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Keywords:

• hybrid mesh
• pyramid
• advancing front method
• sweeping
• Delaunay method

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work was supported in part by National 973 Project of China under grant number 2010CB328005, and in part by National Science Foundation of China under grant number 10972074.